Also called: Sabermetrician, Sports Analytics Analyst
Uses data to help sports teams pick players, plan strategy, and win more games.
You analyze pitch-tracking data for a baseball team, build a model to value free agents, and explain your findings to coaches who might be skeptical.
Entry pay at teams is often low; experienced analysts earn more.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. Bachelor's in statistics, math, or data science; a portfolio of sports analysis helps a lot.
Ways in: 4-year college, Self-taught. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Statistics, Data Science, Mathematics, Sports Management.
Growing much faster than average (about 34% over 10 years). Growth is for data scientists; team jobs are very competitive.
Medium risk in 5 years, high in 10. AI tracking and auto-analysis tools do much of the number crunching; fewer analysts, competition is fierce.
Classes: AP Statistics, AP Computer Science.
Official data: O*NET occupation 15-2051.
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